Thursday, Oct. 17 is a glorious day for hoopheads: It's Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day, where the conference's head coaches and one player from each team come to Pac-12 Studios in San Francisco, Calif., to talk about the upcoming season.

You know it's been a wild week when students wind up on the field, which was the case in Salt Lake City Saturday night. What's more, 14,500 people showed up for a basketball practice in Tucson and we caught some fish out of water. The week:

One of the biggest games of this week's college football slate brings ESPN's College GameDay to Seattle for No. 16 Washington's hosting of No. 2 Oregon. That means the GameDay outdoor set will need helmets, and that means both schools are pulling out some sleek-looking alternates.

Welcome to week 7, friends. I’m still recovering from that outstanding 31-28 Stanford-Washington game. That was some really high-level stuff. I’m excited for another great matchup this week with No. 2 Oregon heading to shiny new Husky Stadium to face Sark and the No. 16 Dawgs. Like the wordsmith and former New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott once brilliantly said, “CAN’T WAIT!”